[new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread assasukasse
Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the inscription of the

\pdf link ended up in different nesting level

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
If I run pdflatex view or export under lyx, I get \pdf link ended up in different nesting level than \pd which apparently has to do with citations. I just wonder what the error exactly means I do not get this error by running ps2pdf Wolfgang

capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. It is ok for Latin Modern Sans and Latin Modern typewriter. It is also ok for bold and italic. What might be the cause of it? Wolfgang

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, Just another stupid question: how do I call it from LyX? I tried to change the Viewer field in Preferences/File Formats/pdflatex to skim but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add any command options? that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost there: Go to

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:39:34AM +0100, Petr Čermák wrote: Hi Petr, I'll CC the lyx-user mailinglist to bring the question to a bigger audience. I'm typically windows user and use Lyx 1.5.3 on windows. I need make Tex docs anywhere independently on PC Is there LiveCD distro with Lyx

LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Maximilian Wollner
Hello everybody, I wasn't exactly sure where to post this, so I thought I'd give it a try here instead of here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll as it's more a suggestion. I am currently working a lot with LyX on my diploma thesis, I've also edited a page on using Memoir in LyX where

Re: LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Also, I would like to detach the document outliner. Did you try to drag the title bar of the outliner? I know that Mac drawer are special but on Window and X11 you can easily detach it. And I would like the setup to stay as it was when I close and reopen LyX

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME SIZE HERE: hAVE YOU TRIED TO CHANGE THE ZOOM LEVEL IN YOUR

Re: latex error with use of code listing

2008-02-14 Thread cedricg
Hello, I've looked around and learned that there is an incompatibility between the 'listings' and the 'babel' package. A sort of fix to avoid the LAtex error message I was speaking in my previous message is to load the 'listings' package before the 'babel' one, like reported here :

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Feb 14, Sven Hoexter did say: I'm typically windows user and use Lyx 1.5.3 on windows. I need make Tex docs anywhere independently on PC Is there LiveCD distro with Lyx 1.5.3? I'm sorry I don't know one. Since

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Feb 14, Sven Hoexter did say: Hi, I'm putting Petr back into the CC because I guess he's not (yet) subscribed here. I'm sorry I don't know one. Since 1.5.3 is not that old and wasn't released

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Heck wrote: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Agreed. Here's an odd thought: perhaps we

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information for me, what is in

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Here's an odd thought: perhaps we could include among the help docs that ship with LyX something that points to additional LaTeX help on the wiki, and then on that page link things like Herbert's math opus, Scott Pakin's list of LaTeX symbols, etc.

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
assasukasse wrote: Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Here's an odd thought: perhaps we could include among the help docs that ship with LyX something that points to additional LaTeX help on the wiki, and then on that page link things like Herbert's math opus, Scott Pakin's list of

Re: double spacing

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Typhoon wrote: Lamport says to use \renewcommand\baselinestretch{2} for double spacing. The argument can be any decimal number: it acts as a multiplier for \baselineskip. \baselineskip is reset by a number of commands, so \baselinestretch is your friend. Lamport, Page 172. However, also

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 11:27 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME SIZE

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote:  I modified the template, but I don't have the sender name/address because that's part of the graphic logo. Looking at the template in LyX, I see there's no logo environment/style. Does the placement in my letter matter? You have to place it above the Opening. Jürgen

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: You have to place it above the Opening. Jürgen, Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. Attached is the preamble and the portion of the document including the first paragraph.

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: With your example ABC..T..Z (thanks a lot!) I get with larger zooms a too large C, G, S and U. I guess this is only shown on the screen; Yes, this is inly a display problem of your PDF viewer. Do I remember correctly that Computer Modern Roman is a vector font

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. FWIW, I'm re-reading portions of Kopka and Daly, and I've ordered copies of Lamport's and Knuth's books so I better understand how LaTeX works in

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) First of all you need to decide what document class you use. I can recommend a koma-skript class because it is highly customizable. Also the memoir

Re: how to detect or use PDF/X-1a:2001 ?

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: I read that my printer wants to use PDF/X-1a:2001 for best printing results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X states: PDF/X-1a:2001, Blind exchange in CMYK + Spot Colors, based on PDF 1.3 The PDF version numbers have the scheme 1.Acrobat version - 1 So Acrobat 4

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. Can you send an example LyX file?    Attached is the preamble and the portion of the document including the first paragraph. Obviously not. Jürgen

how to detect or use PDF/X-1a:2001 ?

2008-02-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I read that my printer wants to use PDF/X-1a:2001 for best printing results. This is a little not LyX specific, but .. How can you tell what PDF setting is in use? For example, one of my books is: tx:reed$ pdfinfo book.pdf Creator:TeX Producer: pdfeTeX-1.21a CreationDate:

Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate a PDF of my current draft. LyX complains about some Latex problems, missing $, } and an extra }. I've looked at the latex code from within lyx, I've looked at the lyx file directly, and I've even deleted the

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: put in preamble: \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } Jürgen, OK. In the template I set fromalign=center, but for now I tried both. With both I get an

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 17:57 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Thanks, Uwe, learned again something! Wolfgang Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: With your example ABC..T..Z (thanks a lot!) I get with larger zooms a too large C, G, S and U. I guess this is only shown on the screen; Yes, this is

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Obviously not.    I put it on; must have fallen off. Here's the attachment ... I hope! put in preamble: \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } The fromalign is crucial, since the

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
put in preamble: \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right%  alignment of the address fromlogo=true%    print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } Sorry, this needs to be \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address ,fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) }

Re: Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
B. Bogart wrote: Thank RH, That indeed was it. So in general I should always be careful about using underscores in LyX? LyX itself will take care of them, as it also takes care of other characters that have special meaning to LaTeX: \, , { , }, [, ], etc. You can see this if you type in

Re: Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate a PDF of my current draft. LyX complains about some Latex problems, missing $, } and an extra }. I've looked at the latex code from within lyx, I've looked at the lyx file directly, and I've

Re: Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread B. Bogart
Thank RH, That indeed was it. So in general I should always be careful about using underscores in LyX? B. Bogart rgheck wrote: B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate a PDF of my current draft. LyX complains about some Latex

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sorry, this needs to be \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address ,fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } Jürgen, Now, that matches the template. I specify the alignment as 'center' or 'centered'

all classes unavailable

2008-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear LyX users, Today I updated MiKTeX 2.7 packages on windows and reconfigured LyX after that. Now LyX shows all classes as unavailable. I have no idea what is going on. I would not expect this behavior because it was only a package update (not an upgrade). Anyone else having the same problem?

[new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread assasukasse
Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the inscription of the

\pdf link ended up in different nesting level

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
If I run pdflatex view or export under lyx, I get \pdf link ended up in different nesting level than \pd which apparently has to do with citations. I just wonder what the error exactly means I do not get this error by running ps2pdf Wolfgang

capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. It is ok for Latin Modern Sans and Latin Modern typewriter. It is also ok for bold and italic. What might be the cause of it? Wolfgang

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, Just another stupid question: how do I call it from LyX? I tried to change the Viewer field in Preferences/File Formats/pdflatex to skim but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add any command options? that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost there: Go to

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:39:34AM +0100, Petr Čermák wrote: Hi Petr, I'll CC the lyx-user mailinglist to bring the question to a bigger audience. I'm typically windows user and use Lyx 1.5.3 on windows. I need make Tex docs anywhere independently on PC Is there LiveCD distro with Lyx

LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Maximilian Wollner
Hello everybody, I wasn't exactly sure where to post this, so I thought I'd give it a try here instead of here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll as it's more a suggestion. I am currently working a lot with LyX on my diploma thesis, I've also edited a page on using Memoir in LyX where

Re: LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Also, I would like to detach the document outliner. Did you try to drag the title bar of the outliner? I know that Mac drawer are special but on Window and X11 you can easily detach it. And I would like the setup to stay as it was when I close and reopen LyX

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME SIZE HERE: hAVE YOU TRIED TO CHANGE THE ZOOM LEVEL IN YOUR

Re: latex error with use of code listing

2008-02-14 Thread cedricg
Hello, I've looked around and learned that there is an incompatibility between the 'listings' and the 'babel' package. A sort of fix to avoid the LAtex error message I was speaking in my previous message is to load the 'listings' package before the 'babel' one, like reported here :

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Feb 14, Sven Hoexter did say: I'm typically windows user and use Lyx 1.5.3 on windows. I need make Tex docs anywhere independently on PC Is there LiveCD distro with Lyx 1.5.3? I'm sorry I don't know one. Since

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Feb 14, Sven Hoexter did say: Hi, I'm putting Petr back into the CC because I guess he's not (yet) subscribed here. I'm sorry I don't know one. Since 1.5.3 is not that old and wasn't released

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Heck wrote: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Agreed. Here's an odd thought: perhaps we

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information for me, what is in

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Here's an odd thought: perhaps we could include among the help docs that ship with LyX something that points to additional LaTeX help on the wiki, and then on that page link things like Herbert's math opus, Scott Pakin's list of LaTeX symbols, etc.

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
assasukasse wrote: Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Here's an odd thought: perhaps we could include among the help docs that ship with LyX something that points to additional LaTeX help on the wiki, and then on that page link things like Herbert's math opus, Scott Pakin's list of

Re: double spacing

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Typhoon wrote: Lamport says to use \renewcommand\baselinestretch{2} for double spacing. The argument can be any decimal number: it acts as a multiplier for \baselineskip. \baselineskip is reset by a number of commands, so \baselinestretch is your friend. Lamport, Page 172. However, also

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 11:27 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME SIZE

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote:  I modified the template, but I don't have the sender name/address because that's part of the graphic logo. Looking at the template in LyX, I see there's no logo environment/style. Does the placement in my letter matter? You have to place it above the Opening. Jürgen

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: You have to place it above the Opening. Jürgen, Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. Attached is the preamble and the portion of the document including the first paragraph.

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: With your example ABC..T..Z (thanks a lot!) I get with larger zooms a too large C, G, S and U. I guess this is only shown on the screen; Yes, this is inly a display problem of your PDF viewer. Do I remember correctly that Computer Modern Roman is a vector font

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. FWIW, I'm re-reading portions of Kopka and Daly, and I've ordered copies of Lamport's and Knuth's books so I better understand how LaTeX works in

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) First of all you need to decide what document class you use. I can recommend a koma-skript class because it is highly customizable. Also the memoir

Re: how to detect or use PDF/X-1a:2001 ?

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: I read that my printer wants to use PDF/X-1a:2001 for best printing results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X states: PDF/X-1a:2001, Blind exchange in CMYK + Spot Colors, based on PDF 1.3 The PDF version numbers have the scheme 1.Acrobat version - 1 So Acrobat 4

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. Can you send an example LyX file?    Attached is the preamble and the portion of the document including the first paragraph. Obviously not. Jürgen

how to detect or use PDF/X-1a:2001 ?

2008-02-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I read that my printer wants to use PDF/X-1a:2001 for best printing results. This is a little not LyX specific, but .. How can you tell what PDF setting is in use? For example, one of my books is: tx:reed$ pdfinfo book.pdf Creator:TeX Producer: pdfeTeX-1.21a CreationDate:

Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate a PDF of my current draft. LyX complains about some Latex problems, missing $, } and an extra }. I've looked at the latex code from within lyx, I've looked at the lyx file directly, and I've even deleted the

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: put in preamble: \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } Jürgen, OK. In the template I set fromalign=center, but for now I tried both. With both I get an

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 17:57 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Thanks, Uwe, learned again something! Wolfgang Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: With your example ABC..T..Z (thanks a lot!) I get with larger zooms a too large C, G, S and U. I guess this is only shown on the screen; Yes, this is

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Obviously not.    I put it on; must have fallen off. Here's the attachment ... I hope! put in preamble: \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } The fromalign is crucial, since the

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
put in preamble: \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right%  alignment of the address fromlogo=true%    print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } Sorry, this needs to be \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address ,fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) }

Re: Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
B. Bogart wrote: Thank RH, That indeed was it. So in general I should always be careful about using underscores in LyX? LyX itself will take care of them, as it also takes care of other characters that have special meaning to LaTeX: \, , { , }, [, ], etc. You can see this if you type in

Re: Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate a PDF of my current draft. LyX complains about some Latex problems, missing $, } and an extra }. I've looked at the latex code from within lyx, I've looked at the lyx file directly, and I've

Re: Strange problem with LaTeX errors in LyX

2008-02-14 Thread B. Bogart
Thank RH, That indeed was it. So in general I should always be careful about using underscores in LyX? B. Bogart rgheck wrote: B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a paper in LyX, all was going well until I tried to generate a PDF of my current draft. LyX complains about some Latex

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sorry, this needs to be \KOMAoptions{% fromalign=right% alignment of the address ,fromlogo=true%print a logo (position depends on fromalign) } Jürgen, Now, that matches the template. I specify the alignment as 'center' or 'centered'

all classes unavailable

2008-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Dear LyX users, Today I updated MiKTeX 2.7 packages on windows and reconfigured LyX after that. Now LyX shows all classes as unavailable. I have no idea what is going on. I would not expect this behavior because it was only a package update (not an upgrade). Anyone else having the same problem?

[new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread assasukasse
Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the inscription of the

\pdf link ended up in different nesting level

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
If I run pdflatex view or export under lyx, I get \pdf link ended up in different nesting level than \pd which apparently has to do with citations. I just wonder what the error exactly means I do not get this error by running ps2pdf Wolfgang

capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. It is ok for Latin Modern Sans and Latin Modern typewriter. It is also ok for bold and italic. What might be the cause of it? Wolfgang

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, Just another stupid question: how do I call it from LyX? I tried to change the "Viewer" field in Preferences/File Formats/pdflatex to "skim" but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add any command options? that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost there:

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:39:34AM +0100, Petr Čermák wrote: Hi Petr, I'll CC the lyx-user mailinglist to bring the question to a bigger audience. > I'm typically windows user and use Lyx 1.5.3 on windows. > > I need make Tex docs anywhere independently on PC Is there LiveCD distro > with Lyx

LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Maximilian Wollner
Hello everybody, I wasn't exactly sure where to post this, so I thought I'd give it a try here instead of here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll as it's more a suggestion. I am currently working a lot with LyX on my diploma thesis, I've also edited a page on using Memoir in LyX where

Re: LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Also, I would like to detach the document outliner. Did you try to drag the title bar of the outliner? I know that Mac drawer are special but on Window and X11 you can easily detach it. And I would like the setup to stay as it was when I close and reopen LyX

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME SIZE HERE: hAVE YOU TRIED TO CHANGE THE ZOOM LEVEL IN YOUR

Re: latex error with use of code listing

2008-02-14 Thread cedricg
Hello, I've looked around and learned that there is an incompatibility between the 'listings' and the 'babel' package. A sort of fix to avoid the LAtex error message I was speaking in my previous message is to load the 'listings' package before the 'babel' one, like reported here :

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Feb 14, Sven Hoexter did say: > > I'm typically windows user and use Lyx 1.5.3 on windows. > > > > I need make Tex docs anywhere independently on PC Is there > > LiveCD distro with Lyx 1.5.3? > > I'm sorry I don't know one.

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Lyx on LiveCD

2008-02-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It would appear that on Feb 14, Sven Hoexter did say: Hi, I'm putting Petr back into the CC because I guess he's not (yet) subscribed here. > > I'm sorry I don't know one. Since 1.5.3 is not that old > > and wasn't

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Heck wrote: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Agreed. Here's an odd thought: perhaps we

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information for me, what is in

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Here's an odd thought: perhaps we could include among the help docs that ship with LyX something that points to "additional LaTeX help" on the wiki, and then on that page link things like Herbert's math opus, Scott Pakin's list of LaTeX symbols, etc.

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
assasukasse wrote: Hi everyone i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) However i incurred in 3 problem that i need to solve if i want to make EVERYthing in lyx: 1. I should use a particular position for the

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread rgheck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Here's an odd thought: perhaps we could include among the help docs that ship with LyX something that points to "additional LaTeX help" on the wiki, and then on that page link things like Herbert's math opus, Scott Pakin's list of

Re: double spacing

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Typhoon wrote: > Lamport says to use \renewcommand\baselinestretch{2} for double spacing. > The argument can be any decimal number: it acts as a multiplier for > \baselineskip. > > \baselineskip is reset by a number of commands, so \baselinestretch is > your friend. > > Lamport, Page 172.

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 11:27 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: > > I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T > > (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. > > i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: >  I modified the template, but I don't have the sender name/address because > that's part of the graphic logo. Looking at the template in LyX, I see > there's no logo environment/style. Does the placement in my letter matter? You have to place it above the Opening. Jürgen

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: You have to place it above the Opening. Jürgen, Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. Attached is the preamble and the portion of the document including the first paragraph.

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: With your example ABC..T..Z (thanks a lot!) I get with larger zooms a too large C, G, S and U. I guess this is only shown on the screen; Yes, this is inly a display problem of your PDF viewer. Do I remember correctly that Computer Modern Roman is a vector font

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest how I determine why not. FWIW, I'm re-reading portions of Kopka and Daly, and I've ordered copies of Lamport's and Knuth's books so I better understand how LaTeX works in

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) First of all you need to decide what document class you use. I can recommend a koma-skript class because it is highly customizable. Also the memoir

Re: how to detect or use PDF/X-1a:2001 ?

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: I read that my printer wants to use PDF/X-1a:2001 for best printing results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X states: "PDF/X-1a:2001, Blind exchange in CMYK + Spot Colors, based on PDF 1.3" The PDF version numbers have the scheme 1.Acrobat version - 1 So Acrobat

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

2008-02-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Well, darn! It's just not showing up in xdvik, or the .pdf. Please suggest > how I determine why not. Can you send an example LyX file? >    Attached is the preamble and the portion of the document including the > first paragraph. Obviously not. Jürgen

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